This is an analysis of the poem Adrian Henri’s Talking After Christmas Blues that begins with:
Well I woke up this mornin' it was Christmas Day
And the birds were singing the night away ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbCccdXE ffddCXgcXE XfhhCgifce i iii a X jXjXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,1,3,1,1,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101001101 1010100101 1111010101 11001011101 11 10 100 10 101 111 11111101011 11101101101 11111000101 1111111011 11 100 10 1110 1011 111 101110111 10110110101 11010001 111110101 11 10 1010101 1110 11111010 100011 1010110101 1110011001 1111010111 111101111 100 10 10 01 110 100011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it's, i are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase there connects the lines.
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